“Alright you sarcastic arse, what are you doin' that's so important?"

Her eyes narrowed suspiciously.

"Can't tell. It's a secret." He replied as he checked his watch. "And one I'm running out of time for. I'll see you later Elisha."

With that Jamie hurried off upstairs and dumped his bag in his bedroom before going to the bathroom. He took a quick shower and changed into some fresh clothes. It felt good to be back in London. It wasn't Long until he'd pocketed the treasure map and was headed out to where he'd left his car parked on the street. He didn't see Elisha on his way out but assumed she was munching on popcorn in the living room whilst starting up a movie.

He drove a black Volkswagen Golf that looked Like it had survived the last ice age. Not exactly a chick magnet but in the two years he'd owned it the car had been reliable enough to only break down when he was in walking distance of home. After opening the door he slipped into the driver's seat and started the engine on the second attempt. The car trundled along out of his street and Jamie took the map out of his pocket to check out where he was going.

According to the map he was headed for a field in the middle of nowhere on the outskirts of the city. It looked to be a couple of hours driving so he put and old rock and roll tape in the deck and started Listening to Aerosmith blaring out of the speakers. He'd considered installing a

CD player in the car but thought that it would make everything else in the thing look ancient. Plus it gave his old cassette collection something to do other than gathering dust.

Along the way he thought about Sonya and Gwen and all the things he'd rather be doing with them now. Still, Allison had asked him to go find whatever was buried under the X on the map and she hadn't let him down so far.

The journey passed quickly and he soon found himself on a road between two fields similar to the one that he'd been on earlier that day.

Finding a place to park his car did not take long and he was soon looking over the map again.

“Ok I'm here, now what do I do? Dig?" He thought aloud to himself after locating the spot over which the X indicated. There was nothing beneath his feet but dirt.

When he looked at the map again he saw that a picture of Allison had suddenly emerged in the corner. She was there in all her beauty as an illustration sitting on the border, smiling up at him.

“Um, you're not helping much here Allison." Jamie spoke to the unmoving little figure on the map. He still didn't have a clue what he was supposed to do after all.

Just as he was about to go grab his shovel from his pack he saw a line emerging from Allison's Lips on the map. The line traced out the shape of a speech bubble over the paper and all the lines within the bubble vanished to be replaced by the words: STEP FORWARD.

Jamie took a step forward.

The words in the bubble vanished and then were replaced by: STAMP FOOT

THREE TIMES.

Jamie hesitated and then, feeling a little silly, he stamped his foot three times.

The instant his boot hit the ground for the third time Jamie felt the earth beneath him crumble and he plunged down into the darkness below.

He let out a yell of surprise as he tried to grab at thin air but found that the fall wasn't a large one as he soon found his backside connecting with the hard concrete floor beneath.